Specie payments, suspended in August and September, 1814, by State banks, except in New England, viii. 213, 214; suspended by Treasury of the United States, 215; power to suspend, in Dallas’s scheme for a national bank, 251; ix. 117; ordered to be resumed by the Treasury, on Feb. 20, 1817, ix. 118, 119, 128; resisted by State banks, 129; resumed Feb. 20, 1817, 131, 132. Spence, Lieutenant, carries letters from Bollman to Burr, iii. 309. Spence, William, iv. 69; his pamphlet “Britain independent of Commerce,” 329. Spencer, Ambrose, i. 109, 112, 228, 233. Spencer, P., captain of the British sloop-of-war “Carron,” reconnoitres Bayou Bienvenu, viii. 338. Spoliations, British, in 1805, i. 45, 73, 108; sensation excited, 109, 118, 125; indemnities asked for, at Ghent, ix. 18; abandoned, 52. ---- French, on American commerce within Spanish jurisdiction in 1797–1798, i. 350; excluded from the treaty of 1800, 361–363; included in Louisiana treaty, ii. 30, 31, 40–42, 46–50, 51, 60, 61; of every kind, indemnified by treaty of 1800, 297; insisted upon by Monroe, iii. 23, 25, 29, 30; forbidden by France, 32; Monroe’s proposition regarding, 35; Madison’s suggestion regarding, 60; Cabinet decision regarding, 107; in 1807–1808, iv. 292, 293, 312; v. 30; in 1809, v. 151, 152, 220, 255; value of, 242, 243; Madison’s anger at, 292; Madison’s demand for indemnity, 295, 296; their municipal character, 299; their justification as reprisals, 230, 232, 234, 237, 254, 258, 259, 388, 391, 396; in Denmark, 409, 411; not matter of discussion, vi. 54, 125; Madison’s language regarding, 187; Monroe’s language regarding, 188, 189; new, reported in March, 1812, 193, 224, 251; in June, 231; probable value of, 247. ---- Spanish, in 1805, iii. 37, 67, 78, 107. Spotts, Samuel, first lieutenant of artillery, in the night battle at New Orleans, viii. 345. Stage-coaches, travel by, i. 11 _et seq._ Stanford, Richard, member of Congress from North Carolina, on armaments in 1808, iv. 214; votes against Giles’s resolution, v. 182; his retort on Calhoun, vi. 144; his speech on war, 146; votes for legal tender paper, viii. 254; in the Fourteenth Congress, ix. 107, 118. Stanley, Lord, vi. 283. Stansbury, Tobias E., brigadier-general of Maryland militia commanding brigade at Bladensburg, viii. 140, 156; criticises Monroe, 151.